Hey admin!

What if we could get a notification when someone screenshots one of our pictures? It would probably help cut down on the people saving users selfies without permission.

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Elessar · 26-30, M

Technically impossible. The moment someone sees a pic, they "have" the pic, locally. Screenshotting or saving it will only make a copy, locally, and there's no way the site or app may know.

Straylight · 31-35, F

@Elessar Oh well, nice thought.

SooperSarah

@Elessar not even an app? I thought snapchat notified you if someone took a screenshot?

Elessar · 26-30, M

@SooperSarah The app can intercept the screenshot event, sure; but it's not impossible nor difficult for anyone who's skilled enough to prevent the app from getting that event altogether.

Or there's even the redneck engineering alternative that is taking a pic of the screen with another phone (and I've seen it happening lol), and there's no way for any app to intercept that.